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Elizabeth D. Leonard, the John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, has been selected to receive the Thomas D. Clark Medallion from the Thomas D. Clark Foundation. She is being honored for her book on slavery in Kentucky.

This is the time of year when many scholars are changing jobs and taking on new assignments. Here are 12 women who will be assuming new duties as deans at colleges and universities throughout the United States.

Gina Herrmann is associate professor of Spanish at the University or Oregon. In examining the the stories of Spanish women survivors of civil war and political incarceration, Dr. Herrmann hopes to shed light on the circumstances of many women political prisoners and refugees today.

The four women awarded tenure at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, are Jennifer Coane in psychology, Ann Marie Kloppenberg in dance, Winifred Tate in anthropology, and Stephanie Taylor in computer science.

The appointees are Kimberly Saunders at the University of Delaware, Jill Ashton at Virginia Tech, Rebecca Brodigan at Colby College, Joyce Jacobsen at Wesleyan University, Teresa Gould at UC-Davis, Regina Lawrence at the University of Oregon, and Catherine Panter-Brick at Yale University.

Veronique Plesch, professor of art, was named president of IAWIS, which seeks to foster the study of word and image relations in a general cultural context and especially in the arts in the broadest sense.

The women stepping down from their posts are Cheryl Levick at Georgia State University, Terry Arendell at Colby College, Margaret C. Merrill at Virginia Tech, Gillian Knapp at Princeton University, and Judy Katz at Juniata College.